Patches was adopted indoors this week by another neighbor! Patches was part of the Eleanor Rigby Colony that I started TNR’ing in 2008. Her feline friend, Clover, was just adopted indoors last month. Now a neighbor on that same block just took Patches inside. This means that since 2008, 18 cats and kittens have been spayed/neutered,… Read more »
These two TNR’d cats from the Jose and the Pussycats Colony are constantly together. Feral or domesticated, cats are social animals that can develop strong bonds to each other, and their caregiver. I’ve been doing TNR and managing this colony for their feeder since 2011. This feline friendship seems to have developed within… Read more »
Well, the search is over, because I found him. This TNR’d cat from the Cell Phones Colony has grown quite an impressive fur coat just in time for the winter. The feral cats do that every year.
My friend Melissa did TNR on her block and cared for a colony for years. Her colony was the next block over from the Cell Phones Colony, and she even adopted out a cat from there. Recently, however, Melissa moved a few miles away. She still checks up on and feeds the original colony. She has… Read more »
Hyde Park Cats is a volunteer-run organization that helps cats and kittens in need. For the past few years they’ve produced a calendar to raise funds for the cats. The 2015 calendar is now available for a suggested price of $10 online or at these locations. I met Hyde Park Cats this year through our… Read more »
Who knew it could be so lush in the fall? Dash posed for me all over the garden. Bouncy Bear photo bomb. And then the sleet hit.
Yesterday I wrote about Biggie Smiles, the Iron Works Colony cat that is bonded to his feeder, his TNR’d feline friends, and his outdoor home. Here is Biggie Smiles when he was small, and we just started doing TNR for this colony in 2012. A coworker told me about this colony and the complaints from… Read more »
The Iron Works Colony is down to four TNR’d cats now. We spayed/neutered twelve cats and kittens total from here in October 2012. Obviously that’s a a two-thirds reduction in outdoor colony size in two years. TNR works. The Iron Works Colony is one of my satellite colonies pretty far from where I live. I… Read more »
I TNR’d Betty from the Jose and the Pussycats Colony in February 2012. Most of this colony feeds and hangs out on the front porch. Betty lived all by herself on the back porch, and I was told she was a mama cat many times before her TNR. In fact, two of her daughters were… Read more »
Mooha wanted to check out what the colony cats were doing, but instead they got scared and scattered. Who’s afraid of a little black cat? They scattered straight into their chiminea cat house. Mooha as always will stay safe indoors, and I put out extra food so the colony cats will hopefully stay safe… Read more »